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to escape danger, (i) used absolutely
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  • Seó wiht (a steer), gif hió gedýgeð, dúna briceð, gif hé tóbirsteð, bindeð cwice

    cf. the Latin riddle:

    Si vixero, rumpere colles incipiam, vivos moriens aut alligo multos,

    • Prehn, p. 212), Ra. 39, 6.
with acc.
to come successfully out of conflict
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  • On swá hwylcum gefeohte swá ðú bist [ðú bist] sigefæst, and þú ꝥ gedigest, gif þú ðone fót mid þé hafast,

    • Lch. i. 328, 7.
to escape from danger, harm, c.
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  • Feá þæt gedýgað þára þe geræcað rynegiestes wǽpen,

    • Rä. 4, 57.

  • Ic þæt unsófte ealdre gedígde,

    • B. 1655.

  • Gefeónde ꝥ hé þone deáð gedígde

    (evaserit),

    • Gr. D. 203, 14.

  • Se bróþer gedígde ꝥ wíte

    frater evasit supplicium,

    • 346, 6.

  • Hé geortrýwde hweþer hé mihte gedígean (évadere) swá myccle frécnesse þára ýþa,

    • 34.

  • Þú þæs déman scealt yrre gedýgan,

    • Jul. 257.
of things :--
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  • Nǽnig móste heora hrórra hrím æpla gedígean

    occidit moros eorum in pruina,

    • Ps. Th. 77, 47.
to escape from an enemy
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  • Þone feónd, þám hé wæs geseald, hé þone ná ne gedýgde

    eum hostem, cui traditus fuerat, non evasit,

    • Gr. D. 327, 18.
to recover from illness
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  • Bútan þá áne þe hý þá slitnesse gedígean mægen

    iis tantummodo exceptis, quae a tali laceratione convalescere possint,

    • Ll. Th. ii. 166, 25.
to benefit, profit,
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  • Gyf hyt hwá gedó, ne gedíge hit him náfre,

    • Lch. i. 384, II.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-dígan.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/47645.

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